Vermont § 15 - Bylaws The Village, at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose, may make, alter, and repeal bylaws of the following subject matter, viz.:

§ 15. Bylaws The Village, at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose, may make, alter, and repeal bylaws of the following subject matter, viz.:

• (1) Relating to their streets, sidewalks, alleys, public highways, commons, parks, and
  public grounds, the cleaning, repairing, and improving the same; to prevent the encumbering
  the same with fire wood, coal, ashes, lumber, carriages, boxes, and other things,
  and to compel persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters adjacent to the premises
  owned or occupied by them snow, dirt, and garbage and to keep the sidewalks and gutters
  clean. (2) Relating to policing and lighting the streets. (3) Relating to nuisances generally and to compel the owner or occupants of an unwholesome,
  dangerous, or offensive house or place to remove or cleanse the same from time to
  time, as may be necessary for the health, comfort, and protection of the inhabitants
  of the Village. (4) Relating to sewers. (5) Relating to water supply for the protection of the Village and the inhabitants thereof,
  and for other purposes, and to regulate the use of the same. (6) To restrain animals from running at large in the Village. (7) To suppress disorderly and gambling houses and all descriptions of gaming, and for
  the destruction of instruments used for that purpose. (8) To prevent immoderate driving in the streets and cruelty to animals. (9) To regulate the manufacture or keeping of gunpowder and all combustibles or dangerous
  materials. (10) To regulate the making, altering, and repairing of stovepipes, furnaces, fire places,
  depositories for ashes, and other things from which loss or damage from fire may be
  apprehended, and in general to provide for the preservation of buildings from fire,
  precautionary measures and inspections. (11) To establish and regulate a fire department and fire hose and hook and ladder companies. (12) To regulate and restrain the sale and use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, toy pistols,
  or other fireworks within the Village; also guns, cannons, and explosives. (13) To license inn-keeping and victualing, peddlers, itinerant vendors, and auctioneers;
  to license and suppress billiard and pool tables, bowling alleys, skating rinks, and
  other places of amusement. (14) To regulate the length, width, and grade of streets and sidewalks, and the construction
  of and protect the same. (15) To prohibit and punish willful injury to trees planted for shade, ornament, convenience,
  or use, public or private, and to prevent and punish trespass or willful injury to
  or upon public buildings, squares, commons, cemeteries, or other property within the